17th December 2014
Close to a million men from the UK through Finland to Singapore pledge to growing moustaches for 30 days in November. And it’s a lot more serious than it sounds. It's Movember. A global campaign rooted form Australia and now ...
14th December 2014
The first cry, the first time you lock eyes, the first smile. From the moment you knew you're pregnant to the first time you can see and feel your baby in your hands, a whole new set of "firsts" start ...
17th November 2014
There are a few things about healthcare that seem to be given. GPs have terrible handwriting and blood tests are slow and cumbersome. Then there’s always that one person who sets out to change what seems to be unchangeable. ...
15th November 2014
There are a handful of conditions you knew a blood test could easily identify, like diabetes, HIV, anaemia. Pretty obvious. But soon, simple blood tests could do a lot more. What if they could predict depression, your chances of breast ...
25th October 2014
Chances are you know someone living with diabetes. According to the NHS in 2010 there were 3.1 million people living with diabetes in England alone, though 850,000 are undiagnosed. While there's no cure for diabetes, it can be managed well and allowing the ...
15th October 2014
[Spoiler Alert!] Fans of the international smash hit TV series Downton Abbey would probably rather forget the emotional episode in season 3 in which the estate-fleeing rabble rouser Sybil was set to deliver her interbellum love child and things went terribly ...
9th October 2014
You’re ready to have your life turned upside down. You’ve made up your mind to pull a whole different type of all-nighters, and to give up lazy Saturdays. You want to have ridiculosuly animated fights over baby names ...
4th October 2014
Your smartphone can show your temperature, heart rate and sleeping patterns. Soon it could even tell you if you have the flu or give you an eye exam. But what about the good old unbreakable ‘dumb’ phones? 6 out of the 7 ...
14th September 2014
A device that uses a single drop of blood can quickly diagnose anemia and allow inexpensive at-home monitoring. The basic test produces results in about 60 seconds and requires no electrical power. A companion smartphone application can automatically correlate the visual ...
4th September 2014
You wake up feeling a bit under the weather. It could be the flu, or maybe your low on Vitamin D? What if you could check right then and there with your morning coffee what exactly is happening to your ...